Taboo subjects
Subtitle: race, sex, and psychoanalysis
By: Gwen Bergner.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Racism in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States; African Americans in literature; Race relations in literature; Miscegenation in literature; Taboo in literature; Race in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : primal scenes of double consciousness; title: Who is that masked woman? gender and Frantz Fanon; title: Myths of masculinity : Frederick Douglass and the Oedipus complex; title: The mulatto and the miscegenation taboo : Nella Larsen's ambivalent subject; title: Blackness and class difference in William Faulkner; title: Rites and responsibilities : Toni Morrison and object relations; title: Afterword : biracial/multiracial-new subject?.